Publications

• 量子インターネットホワイトペーパー「“The” 量子インターネット -この宇宙の物理法則に許されるサイバー空間の極致-」

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International Activities

Invited Papers

• Backcasting Perspectives on Services of Future Quantum Internet. Shota Nagayama, Toshihiko Sasaki, Akihito Soeda. IEEE International Conference on Quantum Software (QSW), Shenzhen, China, 2024, pp. 12-18, doi: 10.1109/QSW62656.2024.00015.

Invited Talks

• Quantum Network Systems and Testbed efforts in Japan. Shota Nagayama. The 4th Workshop on Quantum Repeaters and Networks. Sep. 2024.
• Backcasting Perspectives on Services of Future Quantum Internet. Shota Nagayama. IEEE Symposium on Quantum Software: Towards Quantum Utility in the NISQ Era (QSWUtil). Jul. 2024.

RFCs (Internet Requests For Comments)

• RFC 9340: Architectural principles for a quantum internet. Wojciech Kozlowski, Stephanie Wehner, Rodney Van Meter, Bruno Rijsman, Angela Sara Cacciapuoti, Marcello Caleffi, & Shota Nagayama. RFC Editor. Mar. 2023.

Journal Papers

• Attacking the Quantum Internet. Takahiko Satoh, Shota Nagayama, Shigeya Suzuki, Takaaki Matsuo and Rodney Van Meter. IEEE Transaction on Quantum Engineering 2: 4102617, Jul. 2021

International Conferences with Proceedings

• Automatic Configuration Protocols for Optical Quantum Networks. A Taherkhani, A Todd, K Teramoto, S Nagayama, R Van Meter. IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), Albuquerque, NM, US, 2025. Best Paper Award 2nd Place. arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.19613.
• Integrating Entanglement Purification into All-Photonic Quantum Repeaters. Naphan Benchasattabuse, Michal Hajdušek, Rodney Van Meter. IEEE QCE 2025. arXiv:2504.18121
• A Double Selection Entanglement Distillation-Based State Estimator. Joshua Carlo A. Casapao, Ananda Gopal Maity, Naphan Benchasattabuse, Michal Hajdušek, Akihito Soeda, Rodney Van Meter, David Elkouss. IEEE QCE 2025. arXiv:2505.24280
• A Tailored Fidelity Estimation and Purification Method for Bootstrapping a Quantum Network. Takafumi Oka, Michal Hajdušek, Shota Nagayama, Rodney Van Meter. IEEE QCE 2025.
• Evaluation of Distimation’s Real-world Performance on a Superconducting Quantum Computer. H Yokomori, M Koyama, N Benchasattabuse, M HajduĹĄek, S Nagayama. IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), Albuquerque, NM, US, 2025. arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.18141.
• Scalable Timing Coordination of Bell State Analyzers in Quantum Networks. Yoshihiro Mori, Toshihiko Sasaki, Rikizo Ikuta, Kentaro Teramoto, Hiroyuki Ohno, Michal Hajdusek, Rodney Van Meter, & Shota Nagayama. IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), Montreal, QC, Canada, 2024, pp. 1890-1896, doi: 10.1109/QCE60285.2024.00218.
• Performance of Quantum Networks Using Heterogeneous Link Architectures. Kento Samuel Soon, Naphan Benchasattabuse, Michal Hajdusek, Kentaro Teramoto, Shota Nagayama, & Rodney Van Meter. IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), Montreal, QC, Canada, 2024, pp. 1914-1923, doi: 10.1109/QCE60285.2024.00221.
• Optimal Switching Networks for Paired-Egress Bell State Analyzer Pools. Marii Koyama, Claire Yun, Amin Taherkhani, Naphan Benchasattabuse, Bernard Ousmane Sane, Michal Hajdusek, Shota Nagayama, & Rodney Van Meter. IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), Montreal, QC, Canada, 2024, pp. 1897-1907, doi: 10.1109/QCE60285.2024.00219.
• An implementation and analysis of a practical quantum link architecture utilizing entangled photon sources. Kento Samuel Soon, Michal Hajdusek, Shota Nagayama, Naphan Benchasattabuse, Kentaro Teramoto, Ryosuke Satoh, & Rodney Van Meter. IEEE International Conference on Quantum Communications, Networking, and Computing (QCNC) 2024. Kanazawa, Japan. July 2024. pp. 25-32, DOI: 10.1109/QCNC62729.2024.00014.
• Ruleset-based recursive quantum internetworking. Kentaro Teramoto, Michal Hajdusek, Toshihiko Sasaki, Rodney Van Meter, & Shota Nagayama. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Quantum Networks and Distributed Quantum Computing (pp. 25-30). Sep. 2023.
• Quisp: a quantum internet simulation package. Ryosuke Satoh, Michal Hajdusek, Naphan Benchasattabuse, Shota Nagayama, Kentaro Teramoto, Takaaki Matsuo, Sara Ayman Metwalli, Poramet Pathumsoot, Takahiko Satoh, Shigeya Suzuki, & Rodney Van Meter. IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE) 2022 (pp. 353-364). Sep., 2022.
• A quantum internet architecture. Rodney Van Meter, Ryosuke Satoh, Naphan Benchasattabuse, Kentaro Teramoto, Takaaki Matsuo, Michal Hajdusek, Takahiko Satoh, Shota Nagayama, & Shigeya Suzuki. IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE) 2022 (pp. 341-352). Sep. 2022.

Panel Discussions

• (invitee) Quantum Network Testbed Work in Japan. The 4th Workshop for Quantum Repeater Networks. Sep. 2024.
• (invitee) Quantum Network Testbed Panel Discussion. To appear in IEEE QCE 2024. Sep. 2024. Abstract.
• (organized) Young Researcher Session: Big Vision of the Quantum Internet. Quantum Innovation 2022. Nov. 2022.

Birds-of-a-Feather Organization

• Quantum Quest: Dialogue and Exploration of Quantum Governance Through a Card Game. Sho Morishita, Yusuke Nagato, Konomi Higo, Kentaro Teramoto and Shota Nagayama. IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE) 2024. Sep. 2024. BoF Abstract.
• What Makes Quantum Networks? A Quantum Network Protocols’ Perspective: From Physical Layer to Application Layer. Shota Nagayama, Rodney Van Meter, Wenji Wu and Inder Monga. IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE) 2024. Sep. 2024. BoF Abstract.

Submitted/Pre-prints/in progress papers

• An Optical Interconnect for Modular Quantum Computers. Daisuke Sakuma, Amin Taherkhani, Tomoki Tsuno, Toshihiko Sasaki, Hikaru Shimizu, Kentaro Teramoto, Andrew Todd, Yosuke Ueno, Michal Hajdušek, Rikizo Ikuta, Rodney Van Meter, Shota Nagayama, arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.09299, 2024.
• Erasure-tolerance protocol for the surface codes on Rydberg atomic quantum computers. Fumiyoshi Kobayashi, & Shota Nagayama. arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.12656, 2024.
• Towards End-to-End Error Management for a Quantum Internet. Shota Nagayama. arXiv:2112.07185, Dec. 2021.
• Optimizing Timing of High-Success-Probability Quantum Repeaters. Rodney Van Meter, Takahiko Satoh, Shota Nagayama, Takaaki Matsuo and Shigeya Suzuki. arXiv:1701.04586, Jan. 2017.

Workshops, Conferences Without Proceedings and Posters

• A Troubleshooting Framework for Trapping Ions. Monet Tokuyama Friedrich, Alto Osada, Rodney Van Meter, Shota Nagayama. IEEE QCE 2025. arXiv:2505.00997
• Remote Operation Aware Logical Qubit Allocation in the Fault Tolerant Distributed Quantum Computing. Daisuke Sakuma, Yuta Imahoko, Michal Hajdušek, Rodney Van Meter, Shota Nagayama. IEEE QCE 2025.
• RuleSet Generation Framework for Application Layer Integration in Quantum Internet. Rei Kawano, Shota Nagayama, Takahiko Satoh. IEEE QCE 2025.
• Surface Code Entanglement Ejection. Kento Samuel Soon, Fumiyoshi Kobayashi, Naphan Benchasattabuse, Shota Nagayama. IEEE QCE 2025.
• A Scalable Framework for Automation of Quantum Network Experiments. Amin Taherkhani, Kentaro Teramoto, Andrew Todd, Rodney Van Meter and Shota Nagayama. IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), Montreal, QC, Canada, 2024, pp. 624-625, doi: 10.1109/QCE60285.2024.10436.
• Timing regime in Quantum networks. Michal Hajdušek, Rod Van Meter, Monet Tokuyama, Akihito Soeda, Shota Nagayama. IETF119 QIRG. Mar. 2024.
• Rodney Van Meter, Ryosuke Satoh, Makoto Nakai, Shota Nagayama. IETF119 QIRG. Mar. Mar. 2024.
• Erasure-tolerance protocol for the surface codes on Rydberg atomic quantum computers. Fumiyoshi Kobayashi, Shota Nagayama. QIP. Jan. 2024.
• Host Speaker Series: Quantum Internet. Shota Nagayama and Rodney Van Meter. IETF116. Mar. 2023.